One minute they love each other, the next they want to secretly dip their toothbrush into the toilet — such is the plight of siblings. They’re the best of friends and the worst of enemies, but ultimately, they always love each other (regardless of whether or not they show it).
Whether you’ve got two kids or five, if you’re a parent of multiple kids, you get it. You see it. You live it. From secret arguments to fighting over a single piece of candy, here are 15 tweets from moms and dads that nail the sibling relationship. When it’s good, it’s great. But when it’s bad, oh god, help us.
1. Seriously, what is the obsession?!
2. Sometimes they can handle it.
3. Other times, it’s the classic ‘Sudden 180.’
4. Do me a solid, please?
5. So much blood. So little candy.
6. When you find yourself in the mix.
7. There’s nothing that won’t ignite an argument.
8. When even their birth order annoys them.
9. Are they fighting? Loving? Who even knows?
10. Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?
11. We see what you’re doing, and we’re not buying it.
12. When one kid is straight savage.
13. There’s simply no way around a fight.
14. OK, that’s enough, kids!
15. Maybe this isn’t so bad after all…
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by
Nicole Fabian-Weber
Expertise:
Parenting, Lifestyle
Education:
BS in Communications/Screenwriting, Ithaca College
Highlights:
• Care Contributing Writer & Editor
• Bylines on What to Expect, Parents, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Shape, McSweeney's, Bustle, Romper and more
• Former TV writer
• Certified Yoga Instructor, reiki practitioner, gardening enthusiast
Experience:
Nicole Fabian-Weber is a writer and editor with over a decade of experience working for parenting and lifestyle websites and magazines. She lives outside of New York City with her husband and three children.